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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    I'm not sure, but anything is possible. When I mentioned that, I was referring to the boot manager that was introduced with Windows Vista, which replaced the generic boot.ini -- not any crazy third party software or anything. Thank you. I'm only disappointed because the fix required doing...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    All right, it's time for an update! Earlier today, I formatted the Windows 7 partition, edited everything out of the boot sequence -- including the special Vista boot manager -- related to it, and shut things down. After I removed the Phenom II, I put in the X2, and popped out the battery to...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Two SATA drives. The smaller one has three partitions, and two of them are dedicated to XP x86 and x64. The larger, newer one has a 50GB partition that's being used for Windows 7. This motherboard doesn't have on-board video. During my time of strife, I've continued to Google this issue...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    To provide some additional information in this thread -- even if it doesn't resolve the issue, I know others may come into this problem, and may find this through Google -- I've analyzed the DMP files from Windows 7's BSODs, and they're all focused on dxgkrnl.sys. Some of you folks may...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Would it amuse you folks to know that I'm a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer? My certs were earned with Windows 2000 and XP though, to be fair. I also haven't had a tech job in some four to five years now. Wasn't exactly the best industry for me to pursue higher education in... I should've...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Probably. XP x86 and x64 are still working fine, but if another version if Windows 7 doesn't work -- it'll be easier for me to get one of those, since most of my friends and I completely skipped Vista -- I'll go that route for troubleshooting's sake.
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Still the same behavior. Popped out the CMOS battery to erase my BIOS settings before firing up the PC with the new CPU, and tried reinstalling Windows 7 anew, but nothing has changed. Triple-checked that the CPU is supported by the motherboard, and it is. Windows 7 was working previously with...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Windows 7 was fully updated, as I had been using it previously with my old X2. I also tried uninstalling things earlier when Safe Mode was suggested, but I couldn't get that far. Everything would crash, unfortunately. Going to Fry's now. I'll post an update later on.
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Another Windows 7 disc didn't work. It was an earlier version. This time, instead of booting with the disc in the system and installing from there, I tried installing from Windows XP x64. The installer worked fine in that OS, but as soon as the system rebooted to resume, things were just as...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Of the benchmarking/testing programs I've looked up, I decided to try out Hot CPU Tester and Prime95, just to see if anything happened in XP x64 under stress. Here's the results: Strict memory tests have also shown the new sticks passing with flying colors. Should I try to obtain...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    No, I haven't. I will. I think I'll re-download it, since I'm not sure where my old Memtest86+ disc is. Any additional applications I should try using? Also, the new Windows 7 install completed its initial stage, and rebooted. However, it can't finish, as when it tries to boot into the...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    I'll check the voltages next. To provide an update, I couldn't get into Windows 7's Safe Mode, even. Although it would run, every time I tried to use almost any application, it would crash. This included clicking the Windows logo to just access things like Control Panel. Trying to manually...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    It does seem very unusual, but the way this motherboard was designed, A1 and B1 are what you'll use to run RAM in dual channel mode. That's not like most motherboard's I'm used to -- where the two DIMM slots representing each channel are side by side, and not paired up -- but that's how this one...
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    Windows 7 Angrily Spits at a New Phenom II. Help?

    Hello, everyone. Recently, I decided my good ol' machine was overdue for a respectable upgrade. Deciding to bring it into the modern day, I bought an AMD Phenom II 955. This was an upgrade from my old Athlon X2. I also purchased 4GB of Corsair RAM. Formerly, I was operating with two 1GB...
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    Please help with overclocking an AMD Athlon 64 X2

    I think I will buy the additional sticks of RAM, then, since they're basically $10 each with free shipping. Unfortunately, I cannot buy two 2GB sticks because the motherboard only supports 1GB per slot. So in this situation, it would be most wise to buy two more Kingston 800 sticks, correct?
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